Department of Chaos

"He… He… He’s my friend." the girl stammers. "We… We were just going to take a few packs of Magic cards. But when… Andy opened the first one, they all went… nuts and started destroying everything!" she says, as she’s led to safety!

"That’s… not Andy. That one is Ryan. He’s… Oh god! What the heck?!" she says, her face scrunching up in tears and confusion.

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Those of you sticking with the ghost turn the corner and see who the girl described as Ryan.The thing inhabiting Ryan isn’t so much sliming the clothes, as he is stuffing multitudes of fabric and clothes hangers down his gullet. With a wet, sucking, slurping sound, you watch as Ryan takes a full suit jacket and crams it into his face!

He looks at you, and lets out a burp followed by a satisfied:
"Ahhhhhh… Yummy!" You can tell that the voice isn’t that of the teenage boys. It sounds deeper, more distorted and off…

A mischievous laugh escapes the boy’s mouth then, and he holds up a finger:

"Wait! Wait! Watch this!" comes the distorted, multi-layered voice again. Ryan pukes up on his own feet, and a small mountain of slimed clothes is disgorged from his stomach!

He then pulls out a lighter, and gives it a few practice cranks to bring a flame to life…

The lighter falls, igniting the slime-sodden pile of puked up clothes, just as the chaos demon shoves itself into Niles! It giggles as it shimmies down the man’s throat!

A fire, and a possessed ghost buster all at the same time!

Jasper stops moving the girl toward the exit. It has not occurred to him that people might be possessed. Yes he has an anti glamour beanie but he didn't really think he needed it!

He flips a card out of his pocket, wondering, is anyone other than Niles possessed?

Niles body is forced upward by the chaos demon, and the man makes a freakish jump to avoid the swing of A.J’s frying pan! Niles is still in there, and gets butterflies in his tummy as he is sent suddenly skyward.

As he lands back to his feet, he is taken in the back with some force by Abby. He lands hard on his stomach, and the air is knocked out of him.

That’s not the only thing knocked out of him, as two arms yank the man’s mouth open from within, and try to get a hold of Abby. Little, red arms reach and grasp for any purchase on the woman!

Curtis learns, to his great displeasure, that slime had spattered over many of the clothes in the area. Unfortunately, he only learns this when he tosses the fleeces and they go up immediately, spreading the fire to a nearby island of summer dresses.

HOT SALE
The fire will surely spread out of control before long. Never mind the haunting; the place is about to go up!

Jasper draws on both the card and the swirling energies that are thick in the department store.

Is anyone else possessed!?… he’s asking the nether realm. The answer is cloudy! Cloudier than usual. But isn’t that Curtis adding fuel to the fire over there!? A chaos demon in disguise?

Abby slaps the hands away, and so the thing decides to retreat further into Niles and bunker down. The man’s stomach groans as the demon pushes around in there.

Having fended off the demon, Abby races for the extinguisher, passing the two brawling ghost hunters on her way.

…pppffffff… ppppfffff…
The thing sputters to a start, and then things start to flow! It’s a tough battle, as slime tends to be quite the accelerant, but Abby finally gets things under control.

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Curtis and Jasper, brothers in arms, wrestle on the floor. Despite his training, the fire fighter can’t seem to fight off the other man. At some point, Jasper gets a good look inside Curtis’ mouth and doesn’t see any chaos demons lurking about in there…

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A.J tries to tempt the thing out with mint! Niles can smell it, but it’s the chaos demon that makes a disgusted blegh sound from somewhere within. This demon isn’t a fan of mint!

The demon forces Niles to pounce at A.J, and tries to bite her for bringing the wrong treats to a ghost hunt!